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Date:      Sun, 07 Feb 1999 14:45:55 -0800
From:      Parag Patel <parag@cgt.com>
To:        Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
Cc:        Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, Andreas Klemm <andreas@klemm.gtn.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: some woes about rc.conf.site 
Message-ID:  <199902072245.OAA51371@pinhead.parag.codegen.com>
In-Reply-To: Message from Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>  of "Sun, 07 Feb 1999 13:16:28 PST." <199902072116.NAA26516@apollo.backplane.com> 

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>     My opinion is that since we have /etc/rc and /etc/rc.local, we might
>     as well use /etc/rc.conf and /etc/rc.conf.local the same way -- that
>     is, just as /etc/rc should not be touched by anyone, neither should
>     /etc/rc.conf be touched by anyone.

> 					Matthew Dillon 

Then why bother having rc.conf in the first place?  Just wire in all 
the defaults straight into /etc/rc and leave rc.conf strictly for 
overriding the defaults only, and eliminate rc.conf.* entirely.


	-- Parag Patel




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